1. Mr Kim of North Korea has to be kicking himself. All this effort to make a missile, and now he sees how easy it is to construct a stupid balloon. You could easily mount a mini-nuke on one of these....have a motor propeller to guide it, and have a ICNBB (Inter-Continental-Non-Ballistic-Balloon).
There's probably a hundred guys in the Pentagon that realize the new threat emerging out of this episode.
2. If you were a group of refugees in some country (way beyond Mexico or the Americas)....then you see a new avenue in reaching America. Get a balloon, a pod for a dozen people, supplies for seven days), and just fly via a balloon into the US.
3. I did feel sorry for the Air Force general having to explain to the reporters why they couldn't shoot the balloon down. He's just following WH orders.
4. I suspect this will be a weekly thing now....with a dozen-odd balloons being noticed and Biden unable to really talk about this.
5. On my brilliant-ideas scale (1-to-10).....it's a rock-solid ten. It's not a cheap balloon....my guess, probably up in the $20,000 level and with the hardware/communications situation, and the propeller? They probably spent around $200k for this.
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